Business Today: Chamber for Friday 18 October 2013

9.30am Prayers

Followed by

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill: Second Reading

Until 2.30pm (Standing Order N o. 11(2)(b))

Member in Charge: Dan Byles

Relevant documents:

Ninth Report from the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, House of Lords reform: what next?, HC 251

Notes:

If proceedings on this Bill end before 2.30pm, the Second Bill and, possibly, subsequent Bills may be debated in the time remaining. After 2.30pm, only those Bills which are unopposed may make further progress.

2. Drug Driving (Assessment of Drug Misuse) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Graham Evans

3. Property Blight Compensation Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Mrs Caroline Spelman

4. Local Government (Religious Etc. Observances) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Dr Matthew Offord

5. Asylum (Time Limit) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Mr Christopher Chope

6. Foreign Nationals (Access to Public Services) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Mr Christopher Chope

7. Railways Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Caroline Lucas

8. Medical Innovation (No. 2) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Michael Ellis

9. Education (Information Sharing) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Andrew Selous

10. Sexual Impropriety in Employment Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Mr Christopher Chope

11. House of Lords (Maximum Membership) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Mr Christopher Chope

12. EU Membership (Audit of Costs and Benefits) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Mr Christopher Chope

13. Coroners and Justice (Amendment) Bill: Second Reading

Member in Charge: Sir Paul Beresford

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

Until 3.00pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))

Challenges facing rural businesses: Andrew Bingham

 

 

WRITTEN STATEMENTS

 Statements to be made today

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

1 . Triennial Review of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

Secretary of State for the Home Department

2 . Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on Human Trafficking

Secretary of State for Transport

3 . Publication of reports on Heathrow Operational Freedoms Trail

Notes:

Texts of Written Statements are available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-written-statements/.

 

COMMITTEES MEETING TODAY

The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be changed without notice.

 Select Committee

Scottish Affairs

Subject: The impact of the bedroom tax and other changes to housing benefit in Scotland

Witnesses: Councillor David Ross, Deputy Leader, Louise Sutherland, Housing Manager, and Eileen Rowand, Head of Revenue and Exchequer Services, Fife Council, and Graham Sutherland, Fife Law Centre; Norma Philpott, Citizens Advice Bureau, Norah Smith, Kingdom Housing Association, Pauline Buchan, Cottage Family Centre, and Craig Stirratt, Fife Housing Association (at 12 noon)

Fife Council Building, Glenrothes, Scotland

10.45am (private), 11.00am (public)

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED TODAY

 TREASURY

5th Report: Appointment of Sir John Cunliffe as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, HC 689 - I

Time of publication: 00.01am

6th Report: Re-appointment of Dr Martin Weale to the Monetary Policy Committee, HC 313 - I

Time of publication: 00.01am

 JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

4th Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, HC 755

Time of publication: 11 .0 0 am

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 29 October to Monday 4 November

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7.00pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 23 October. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 24 October.

 FUTURE DEPARTMENTS ANSWERING IN WESTMINSTER HALL

Weeks beginning Monday 28 October

Applications for General or Short Debates should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7.00pm or the rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 22 October. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 23 October. Members may submit applications to the Table Office in person or send a signed application through the post.

The following Departments will answer:

Business, Innovation and Skills; Communities and Local Government; Defence; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Health; International Development; Justice; Leader of the House; Scotland; Transport; Treasury; Wales

Weeks beginning 4 November and 18 November

The following Departments will answer:

Cabinet Office; Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Education; Energy and Climate Change; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Health; Home Office; Justice; Northern Ireland; Women and Equalities

Weeks beginning 11 November and 25 November

The following Departments will answer:

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Defence; Deputy Prime Minister; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; International Development; Leader of the House; Scotland; Transport; Treasury; Wales; Work and Pensions

 Determination of Business by the Backbench business Committee

Monday 21 October in the Chamber

General debate on the future of the BBC: Alun Cairns, Steve Brine and Dame Angela Watkinson

Motion relating to the state of natural capital in England and Wales: Mr Graham Stuart

Thursday 24 October in the Chamber

Motion relating to the FCA redress scheme for the mis-selling of interest rate swap derivatives: Guto Bebb, Mark Garnier and Mr Gary Streeter

General debate on aviation strategy: Mrs Louise Ellman

Thursday 24 October in Westminster Hall

General debate on planning, housing supply and the countryside: Mr Laurence Robertson, Mrs Anne Main and Nick Herbert.

Notes:

The subject for this debate was determined by the Backbench Business Committee; it replaces the previously scheduled debate on free school meals, which has been cancelled.

 Notices of Meetings of General Committees

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 22 October at 8.55am and 2.00pm and Thursday 24 October at 11.30am and 2.00pm further to consider the Defence Reform Bill.

European Committee B will meet on Monday 21 October at 4.30pm to consider European Union Documents Nos. SEC(2013) 370, the Statement of estimates of the Commission for 2014 (Preparation of the 2014 Draft Budget) and No. 11791/13 relating to a Council Regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014–2020.

European Committee B will meet on Wednesday 23 October at 2.30pm to consider European Union Document No. 12732/12 and Addenda 1 and 2, a draft Council Decision on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union.

The First Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Monday 21 October at 4.30pm to consider the Value Added Tax (Education) Order 2013 (S.I., 2013, No. 1897).

The Second Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Wednesday 23 October at 2.30pm to consider the draft Excepted Vehicles (Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979) Order 2013.